First, I could care less about the manipulators. If they continue to take Apple down, I will buy more and more stock as it descends. I buy and hold long term and sell when a stock hits the target I have in mind. My only question here is whether this move on Apple is a prelude to global financial collapse. Hell, it is the only reasonable explanation. And if this is the case, I don’t know where anyone could hide anyway. Look at gold lately, it is beginning to fall from it’s lofty heights just like Apple. Don’t even mention bonds to me. There is a loser going in if anything happens at all. Does anyone really think that the government could cover 16 Trillion in debt if asset prices collapse and income collapse all at the same time?

Store Recon

Today, Apple had a Grand Reopening for the Ala Moana Apple Store (official #R073). This Apple Store opened on 17 May 2003 and was the first one in Hawai’i. It was Apple’s 57th store and had 4,600 square foot. The store was closed from July 2011 for renovation to the new standard size which was achieved by taking over the space previously occupied by San Lorenzo’s Bikinis.

Ala Moana Mall is the largest shopping center in Hawaii. It opened just months before Hawaii was added to the Union in 1959, and today is the largest open air mall in the world. It is also the 13th largest in the United States.

You can read more about the Mall as well as details on what a typical day at this Apple Store is like at Ala Moana Mall »

One of the biggest malls in the country, King of Prussia, just outside of Philadelphia, had a very large crowd after Xmas and the Apple Store had iPhone launch-like lines just for regular customers.

Apple Stats

Complete statistics on all things Apple can be found here, including Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, iTunes, AAPL Stock, Company Performance and Marketing.Apple Stats »

Death Watches

When Apple launched the first iPod in 2001, there have been numerous reports of the "iPod Killer."
It never happened. Since then Apple has introduced other disruptive technology products, which have been subjected to the same "fate" as the iPod. The most exhaustive collection of ill-fated predictions for these products have been immortalized in the pages below.iPhone Death Watch »